Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines who have studied technological advance in some detail have converged on the proposition that technological advance needs to be understood as proceeding through an evolutionary process characterized by multiple search efforts, deep intertechnological differences in the ways potential opportunities are tagged, ubiquitous uncertainty and innovation-drive...

This policy brief explores the use and expands the conversation on the ability of geospatial technologies to represent Indigenous cultural knowledge. Indigenous peoples’ use of geospatial technologies has already proven to be a critical step for protecting tribal self-determination. However, the ontological frameworks and techniques of Western geospatial technologies differ from those of Indige...

As reimbursement continues to decline for diabetes management technologies and practice overhead continues to rise, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the current reimbursement environment for new technological innovations in diabetes care. The current environment demands a strong partnership among providers, key stakeholder groups, and industry to advocate for favorable coding...

This study presents an extended technology acceptance model that integrates innovation diffusion theory to investigate what determine user mobile commerce acceptance. This paper models the factors relationships such as perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, personal innovativeness, subjective norms, behavioral control and intention to adopt mobile commerce. The proposed model was empirica...

Two recent developments in innovation research constitute the basis of the broader research area of which this paper is part: the increasing interest in organisational innovations (OI) and the conceptualisation of innovation systems (IS). In Alänge and Lundgren (2000), a theoretical framework for studying the diffusion of OI is developed. The main purpose of this paper is to apply the framework...

Several research studies attempted to study and analyze the factors that affect innovation diffusion. However, the focus was on the innovation attributes rather than the individual factors that help or prevent innovation acceptance and diffusion. This paper advances a conceptual model that integrates individual and cultural factors that affect acceptance and diffusion of innovations. Individual...

This paper focuses on the structural estimation of agent based models. After presenting and discussing the econometric methodology we use, we provide an example of the structural estimation of an agent-based model of innovation diffusion.

We construct a model of innovation diffusion that incorporates a spatial component into a classical imitation-innovation dynamics first introduced by F. Bass. Relevant for situations where the imitation process explicitly depends on the spatial proximity between agents, the resulting nonlinear field dynamics is exactly solvable. As expected for nonlinear collective dynamics, the imitation mecha...